Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin
Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbinis the senior United States Senator from Illinois, in office since 1997. He has been the Assistant Minority Leader, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, since 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 November 1944
effort purpose filibuster
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
ask best billion committee cover efforts given hard intelligence lost members questions refuses senate seriously spending
We have lost over 2,000 of our best and bravest. Over 15,000 have been seriously wounded, ... We are spending more than $6 billion a month, with no end in sight. And this Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee refuses to even ask the hard questions about the misinformation and disinformation given to the American people, and the efforts made by the members of this administration to cover it up.
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it would have put millions of American consumers and families at risk of losing coverage for necessary health care.
mend patriot
We do not want to end the Patriot Act. We want to mend the Patriot Act.
create environment helped likely permissive
At the very least, Mr. Gonzales helped to create a permissive environment that made it more likely that abuses would take place.
hands opportunity
This opportunity is slipping through our hands like grains of sand.
basic candor looking time
There's more candor this time around, which helps, but I'm still looking at some of the basic questions,
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We are the largest magnet for this level of talent in the world.
against balance basic favor personal power privacy protecting scales tip
I worry... he will tip the balance of the scales of justice. He will tip the balance against protecting our basic privacy and personal freedoms. He will tip the balance in favor of presidential power even when it violates the law.
beyond expanding law loyalty personal process view
I wonder, where are you? ... Beyond loyalty to the process of law, how do you view this law when it comes to expanding our personal freedom?
core trying
I wonder, where are you? ... All of us are trying to get down to, what are your core values?
break clean credible president strong
I think it would be a clean break for this President.I think we need a strong president with credible leadership,
categories mere
M&M categories -- the multimillionaires and the mere mortals.
values
We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,